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Don't be silly, you can't "take" "sides" when there's only one right answer.

THOS IS WHAT I AM TRYING TO TELL YOU PPL

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

And the answer is Thin Mints. Next question!

― Laurel, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Peanut Butter Patties? I like those ones, too!!!!

― dan m, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of chewing headphone cords and developing sexuality, looks like no new iPod for awhile 'cause spaying kittens is $$$.

― Jordan, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Thin mints are most popular, and you get more in a box, but I would just feel like part of the herd if I picked them.

Although I am kinda dreaming now of eating some thin mints along with a bowl of mint chocolate chip ice cream. Mint overload!

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

(peanut butter patties OTM)

― Jordan, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think I've ever had Peanut Butter Patties. Where do you people get Girl Scout cookies? Are there Girl Scout moms in your office or something?

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

My officemates are all about the new lemonades. BO-RING. Gimme some chocolate or peanut butter or both.

― KitCat, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, there are Girl Scout aunts mostly. Also, people in my office buy cookies from their friends kids and then bring them to the office to share (most notably the owner who gave us like 15 boxes to share).

― KitCat, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Thin Mints but Samoas are better.

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

There are ... NEW lemonades?

Actually, I'm sort of addicted to Bolthouse Farms Mango Lemonade.

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't had a Girl Scout cookie in a long time, but I still know what I like, and that is Peanut Butter Patties. Frozen. Goddamn.

― dan m, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm trying to decide if I should go to Momphis to surprise her for her bday. (Yes, I typed it that way on purpose.) Well, yes, I definitely want to go. It just sucks, besides the money part, that I realized I'll only have a half day left after this trip and the honeymoon for Christmas/Thanksgiving/other out of town shows. NOOOO!

― KitCat, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Thinking about going to Seattle in April for the EMP thing...

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

[i[http://photo.sing365.com/music/picture.nsf/EMF-photo/48256C71003578A2482569670003E713/$file/emf.jpg[/i]

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

sigh

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I see what you were trying to do there.

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

unbelievable...

― dan m, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

CRUMBELIEVABLE

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Remember CD singles? I had that song.

― dan m, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I had the cassingle of that song.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah swears that the sample in the chorus of that song says "What the fuck waaaaaas that?"

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Check it:
UNBELIEVABLE
EMF

You burden me with your questions
You'd have me tell no lies
You're always asking what it's all about
Now listen to my replies
You say to me I don't talk enough
But when I do I'm a fool
These times I've spent, I've realized
I'm going to shoot through
And leave you

The things, you say
Your purple prose just gives you away
The things, you say
You're unbelievable
You burden me with your problems
By telling me more than mine
I'm always so concerned
Download MP3's
With the way you say,
You've always go to stop
To think of us being one
Is more than I ever know
But this time, I realize
I'm going to shoot through
And leave you

Seemingly lastless, don't mean
you can ask us
Pushing down the relative
Bringing out your higher self
Think of the fine times, pushing
down the better few, instead of
bringing out the clues, to what the
world and everything anger to, brace
yourself with the grace of ease,
I know this world ain't what it seems.
What the fuck was that,
its unbelievable

― KitCat, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

That 'seemingly lasteless...' part rules because it's all angsty and rap-like. GRR!
I LOVED that song.

― KitCat, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

This panel looks cool:

Erica Easley, “ReDressing History: Rock T-shirts and The (re)Creation of Rock Mythology”
Katherine Meizel, “Making the Song Your Own: Nostalgia, Authenticity, and the Cover in American Idol”
Daphne Carr, “Selling Sad: How Hot Topic Made the Mall (Safe for the) Miserable”
Michaelangelo Matos, “A Matter of Trustafarians: Behind the Bob Marley Poster on the Dorm Room Wall”

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

From my 1991 mixtape:

For better or for worse, this was the pinnacle of the Madchester sound in the U.S., reaching #1 on a blend of dance beats and shouts, busy cowbell, and the "hard rock" preset on my Casio. Me, I liked imitating James Atkins' accent while replacing the mush-mouthed "your purple prose gives you away" with "your Hans and Franz impression blows me away." Did I mention I was twelve?

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, the <quote> tag automatically converts to italics. I thought all of you were adding italics to something that was already set off, which just seemed dumb to me.

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I too used to hear/sing "Hans and Franz [just gives you away]" for that song. John, Jenny, and I sang this while waiting for the Damen bus early on in our life together, Jeff was there too, but not singing, obv.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow. That was the SAME NIGHT as "homeboy," Kenan hitting his head on the curb, me stumbling around with my pants around my ankles, the photo of me looking surly, etc.

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I've already told Jenny, but look!!!

Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Theatre : LaSalle Bank Theatre
Dates : March 27, 2007 - April 07, 2007

Direct from electrifying and critically acclaimed runs on Broadway and in London's West End, the new production of Edward Albee's masterpiece WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, starring original cast members KATHLEEN TURNER and BILL IRWIN, will play Chicago’s LaSalle Bank Theatre for a limited engagement. Edward Albee’s WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? is the story of George and Martha, two of the most famous roles ever written for the stage. Over the course of one wickedly hilarious evening, the cocktails come out and the gloves come off as this riveting duo takes their two young guests on the ride of their lives.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

ooh... link? ticket info?

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

[url]http://www.broadwayinchicago.com/shows_dyn.php?cmd=display_current&display_showtag=virginiawoolf07[/url]

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

WTF:SLKNDGV:OINE

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh well. Here's a link for a preview http://stream.broadwaychannel.com/chicago/index.php?title=Whose_Afraid_of_Virginia_Woolf#

Kathleen Turner is looking healthy these days.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

not turning down seconds, that's for sure.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Computer crashed/died and we lost tons of irreplacable photos and documents and music that is replaceable but would require a lot of time/energy to replace. Has since been revived but it's basically naked.

Gas leak in the building (where we live) causes explosion scare that includes visions of 3rd degree burns, homelessness and destitution. Nothing exploded, but it could have since I was last there.

3 pm and still no lunch

;_;

― La Lechera, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow. It can only get better from here on out. As long as that explosion never came to pass....

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't blow up, manda. Plz.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Photos are replaceable, just buy another plane ticket.

― Jordan, Monday, 26 February 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank you for your kind words of support. I will try not to explode.

I am not particularly bothered by this new format, except I liked the feature that would show me unread messages rather than that "500 messages are being hidden clickt to show" button.

― La Lechera, Monday, 26 February 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

the "Food of the 80's" thread makes me never want to eat again.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Amen to that. Plus I have a problem with the lack of x-post warning. And no automatic hyperlinking.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Plus I have a problem with the lack of x-post warning.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe they need a double post warning.

― dan m, Monday, 26 February 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Today as I was thoroughly relishing my McGriddle I was thinking that one food of the '00s is the sweet-and-savory kind.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I just found a gnat floating in the glass of water I'm drinking. Will it end? Please let this 7-Day Spell of Hell end peacefully.

― La Lechera, Monday, 26 February 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

test

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

test

is met with

ILX 2
You have tried to insert a duplicate message.

Return to Front Page.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Comparing things I was actually eating in the 80's, many of which are listed on that thread, to what I eat now, i.e. tons of deep-dish pizza and thai and middle eastern food, I'd rather have now. Surely that's largely because I live in a better place to eat and have had more exposure to different foods. But I can't help thinking that some of it is because Americans have more options in general. Food is getting better!

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

You also have to take into consideration our age in the 80s. The fact that we were eating tons of ranch dip and Ruffles and fruit roll ups probably had to do with the fact that we were little kids. Now we are adults and eat adult food.

― La Lechera, Monday, 26 February 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

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